Just perfect...

Fantastic!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Alf is a space alien--but there are two catches. First, he's played by a puppet--and not a space-alien puppet but a generic animal puppet that looks about as extraterrestrial as Elmo. Second, he acts exactly like a obnoxious, spoiled, middle-American, male yahoo. That's convenient, because he lives with an excruciatingly "normal" family from affluent, whitebread, eighties-America suburbia! Get it?

It blew my mind as an adult to find out that there were tensions on the set of "ALF". One of my favorite shows as a kid, and here it is a veritable Behind the Music episode. It really put a different spin on my perception of the show.Regardless, it's still emblematic of happy memories (such are unavoidable with regard to favored past TV); the iconic puppet, the laughs, sitting my parents down every Monday night as a ritual. He's got a voice that instantly recognizable, and the show left an impression that had me tuning into various talk show appearances, TV movies and ad campaigns in the '90s. Being axed before its time can be said about myriad TV shows, and it's no less applicable here.This is classic '80s TV.9/10

ALF was a great show for family entertainment value, it was clean and was very original at the time with a main character who was a wise cracking alien, the cast was all really good and it was actually pretty funny most of the time. My fave characters were the guy who played Willie and the Okmonaks next door (sorry if I spelled that wrong but you have to admit it's a tough name to spell).I loved this show when I was a kid. I picked up the DVDs for season one the other week and have to admit it is not as good as I remember but hey it's been like twenty years or whatever, it was an awesome show and I bet kids would still love it. The guy who played ALF or at least played the voice of ALF was perfect with great timing and all the good jokes in the show were ALF's wisecracks.

I watched it for the first time in the year 2004 when i was 16 yrs old.Surprsingly I find it relevant to the present current era too.The dialog rendering is brilliant.Willie and ALF make a good pair.I don really watch English sitcoms.But became a fan of this once i started watching the first few episodes.And i only realized how i close i became to this show when i came across the DVD couple of years later.I love to watch this show over and over again.ALF's way of expressing things is extremely good and catchy.Below is one of my favorite ones.Willie: Stay away from the window, we've got a very nosy neighbor - Mrs. Ochmonek. ALF: Ochmonek? Sounds like a typo